The Essential Enterprise Architecture tool helps you understand how people, functions, processes, IT applications, data, infrastructure, suppliers, and customers interact across the business. Essential enables you to identify improvement opportunities and assess the impacts of planned changes to the operating model.

Essential Cloud

Use Essential Cloud to grasp the strategic impact of your IT infrastructure on business outcomes. Identify rationalisation opportunities to increase agility, reduce costs, or explore cybersecurity risks. Engage your entire organisation in data capture – from line managers to C-level executives – with Everyone’s Essential.

Built by a team of experienced Enterprise Architects, Essential Cloud reflects real-world expertise from organisations of all sizes. The insights provided empower you to make critical decisions confidently, with key information at your fingertips. Data management solutions reduce maintenance overhead, allowing you to focus on success.

Essential primarily supports the Enterprise Architect role but also serves the wider organisation by enabling effective architecture management with minimal effort.

Essential Cloud and Essential Business Lenses require commercial licenses; contact for details.

Essential - Open Source EA Tool – Free Enterprise Architecture Software

Unlock your organisation’s potential with Essential Open Source, a comprehensive and free enterprise architecture management tool. It provides deep insight into your organisation’s people, processes, and systems.

Essential Open Source is ideal for teams aiming to improve Enterprise Architecture on a limited budget. It has been developed with input from practicing architects in the EA community and project sponsors at EAS. Download it free from the EAS website.

Get help and support

Bridgehead Consulting is the trusted partner for Essential Cloud across the Nordics.

Other partners can be found at the EAS website.